I also really recommend looking into Da’Shaun Harrison’s work around the politics of ugly

I really recommend reading this piece: wyvarchive.com/ugly-white-s...

By insulting others’ looks to defend OIandria, you are reinforcing a system that harms other Black women.

It is like body positivity Body positivity (still centering beauty as something aspirational and virtuous - just widening the definition of “beauty”)
vs
Body Neutrality (doing away with the concept of beauty altogether)

To invest into conventional beauty standards means you invest in the ideas of featurism, colorism, texturism, fatphobia, etc. There will always be “exceptions,” but beauty/lookism in our society is very violent and has material consequence. (1 example darker skinned ppl getting harsher sentences)

So now you have ppl in the comments of this video saying things like “objectively beautiful” (how would you even begin to define objective beauty w/o defaulting to white supremacist talking points?) or calling others “jealous” reinforcing the idea of beauty as a rare commodity to be valued

Her putting sunglasses around her waist was a form of body checking. The “challenge” is about thinness. The response to that criticism shouldn’t be “white celebs got away with it” it should be that all participants should be criticized for participating in a fat-phobic trend!

Beauty is not a virtuous thing. It isn’t something to aspire to either. Beauty politics will always keep certain groups of people out in order to maintain beauty as power. It doesn’t help Black women to reify beauty standards. I talked about this on the other site.

if this happens to anyone less important than a top-20 media personality or a senator they will spit on our graves for anything controversial we ever said, or any stand we ever took, and we all know it

I was thinking I would just take it down temporarily but banning a journalist for quoting their own article about Kirk just because it wasn't a hagiography sickens me and I don't see it getting better anytime soon